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Guest Post: The Ugly Truth Donald Trump Has Exposed

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Authored by Karl Denninger via The Market Ticker blog,

The fear in both the GOP and Democratic party is visible at the surface when it comes to Trump, and it's not that he's any of what they've accused him of.  No, it's really much simpler than that, and both Republican and Democrat parties, along with the mainstream media, are utterly terrified that you, the average American, is going to figure out what underlies all of these institutions in America.

No, it's not that they're evil.

It's worse, for evil frequently is recognized and fought back yet for decades America has not awakened to what has been going on in the political and media establishment.  It was evident during the Vietnam war and has only gotten worse since.

For those who don't recall the Tet Offensive was an attack launched by the NVA and VietCong by some 70,000 troops in a coordinated series of attacks across more than 100 targets.  It was an attempt to foment rebellion among the South's population.

Tet failed in its military objective, in that there were too few troops spread too thinly, and once the US and South Vietnamese figured out what was going on they literally slaughtered a huge number of the attackers.  To put perspective on this at the Battle of Hue roughly 500 US Marines and South Vietnamese were killed but over 5,000 NVA and VietCong died in that one battle alone.

The story was repeated through the country; while the North managed to attack they lost virtually the entire attacking force, while not managing to take one mile of territory.  They also failed to incite rebellion, which was the primary goal of the offensive in the first place.

Our media, however, reported that we lost.  They were present and they lied, including Walter Cronkite. Cronkite reported in February of 1968 that the war "was a stalemate and probably unwinnable" despite knowing that the NVA had virtually been rendered soldierless in the Tet offensive as their casualty rate ran ten times the South's.

Tet was a desperation move; the North was in serious trouble.  They were failing to take territory and losing men and material at an ridiculous rate compared to the Americans and South.  Simply put we were the better fighting force and it wasn't a close call.  In the first few days of their "offensive" they lost ten thousand men against about 750 on the other side and it just got worse from there with total losses on their side being close to 50,000, or virtually all of their remaining fighting-age force.

Cronkite didn't care about the truth.  He wasn't evil, he was indifferent.  He didn't give a damn about the fact that a totalitarian government was being handed a victory over millions of citizens, he simply wanted to make a further name for himself and push his political agenda.

Likewise there are those who claim that Obama and similar are evil in their view of Muslims and terrorism and of course they wish to draw a distinction between left and right sides of the aisle.  Wrong.  They're all indifferent.

The political goal is more power for them and their friends, mostly economic power.  More ability to extract from you by force and threaten you with jail or worse if you try to resist.  More power over your daily life.  More power to tell you that you must bake a cake for gays (because your religious convictions don't matter) but if your religious convictions are Muslim then they do matter and must be protected because that's where one of the big reservoirs of oil and undeveloped people that can be exploited in the future reside.

They literally don't care if you get blown up or shot and it doesn't matter if they're Democrat or Republican.  They don't care if you live under a freeway overpass because your health "insurance" that you are forced to buy covers so little that you have to spend $6,000 before one dime is covered, and you don't have $6,000.  They don't care that a Christmas Party was shot up by a couple of Islamic Nutjobs who they could have identified if they did care and in fact they shut down an investigation on "civil rights" grounds that probably would have identified the shooters years before.

Jeb Bush has never apologized for giving Driver Licenses to the majority of the 9/11 hijackers in Florida because he doesn't care.  What he cared about was making sure that illegal immigrants could roof houses during the housing bubble so his buddies could make money.  That 3,000 Americans died as a plausibly direct consequence doesn't matter to him.

Marco Rubio supports allowing the illegal invaders to remain here because he doesn't care if it screws you out of a job.  Like Bush, what he cares about is his corporate patrons that want cheap labor.  He cites all these Fortune 500 companies that were started by immigrants but I'll bet that not one of them was an illegal invader.  Ditto for his Nobel Prize winner claims.  Oh sure, they've been immigrants -- the legal variety.  The illegal ones are the roofers working under the table or the gang members.  That there is immense criminal and economic collateral damage doesn't matter to him; he's not evil, he's indifferent.

Ben Carson refuses, despite being a surgeon, to speak against the medical monopolies.  He knows exactly what's wrong in that regard both in the hospital and drug field.  He's not evil, he's indifferent to the damage that his own profession has done to you over the last 30 years.

Hillary Clinton knows damn well that during the Benghazi attacks there were military resources available to interdict them.  But she has famously said "what difference does it make" and, in her view, she's right.  She's not evil, she's indifferent -- to the lives lost there and to any other collateral damage including the arming of what has turned into Daesh!  Her goal is globalism, socialism and statism, all for her own personal aggrandizement.  That you are harmed or even killed doesn't matter to her.

Folks, this is where Trump is really freaking the establishment out.  See, Trump already has anything material that he wants, and if something pops up he wants and doesn't have he can simply stroke a check.  He has no need to play the indifference game; there is no amount of money he can gain or lose in his lifetime that will change his lifestyle.  He has his own security and doesn't need yours, he has his own money and also doesn't need yours.

The visceral reaction you're seeing in the media isn't about Trump's policies.  It's fear that's motivating them.

They fear that you might come to realize that you can't demonize the "other side" for being evil; rather, they are both equally guilty almost to a single man and woman at being simply indifferent as to how much you get screwed and by whom, up to and including your death and the death of your childrenso long as their desire for more power and control, either for them or their friends, is realized.

If that happens -- if you quit the left/right, republican/democrat, liberal/conservative game and instead demand the indictment of all of them for their treasonous and outrageously unlawful behavior along with their removal from office and are willing to back that up with action up to and including a general strike until they are all gone and in chains then they are all screwed.

That is what is driving the animus toward Trump.

Wake up America.

 

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Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:26 | 6919951 Chuckster
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1935 Germany

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:33 | 6919981 matermaker
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Exactly, Chuckster.  9 years later, not so much.   WE WERE TOLD FROM THE BEGINNING... NO FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS.   It's worked great for nations like the Swiss.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 11:01 | 6921314 FrankDrakman
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Great Britain in 1940, when she alone faced Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Communist Russia (remember Molotov-von Ribbentrop?), and Imperial Japan, with all her continental 'allies' (France, Benelux, Poland) hors de combat, and the Iberian and Scandinavian peninsulas either trading with the enemy or 'neutral'.  FDR was still being a pussy (or maybe laying off so Joe Kennedy could make a few more millions trading with Germany before joining in.)

I would say, it not only worked out well for a 'population'; it worked out well for the whole world (for a time, anyway). 

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 21:57 | 6919823 GRDguy
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Geez, if folks only understood the definition of the word "sociopath,"

as found in the book "Snakes in Suits." (and other books and places.)

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:36 | 6919991 pods
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That is what I was going to say.  The people in high office only get there because they actually think and act differently.

Zero empathy.  Makes for easier decisions that get them ahead.

(not sure if your reference was the common definition or not)

pods

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 21:57 | 6919826 california chrome
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Once again brilliant Denninger nails it!

The profound apathy and indifference that characterize the quest for moar money and power by the elites.

Just like the "far right" lost in France when the socialist party pulled out their players and urged the public to vote "conservative" so too will Trump be out-trumped by TPTB.

Sad, sick society that we live in.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 21:59 | 6919834 joego1
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Let them eat McNothings...

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:25 | 6919946 Chuckster
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Boy...somebody fed her a lot of oats!

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 21:58 | 6919829 joego1
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Anything that makes the assholes dance is music to my ears.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:12 | 6919833 SquadronVBF94
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I have been saying for months now that if Trump were to call for a Constitutional amendment creating term limits for the House and Senate he would be swept into office almost by acclimation.  One can hope he is keeping that in his back pocket for now and is going to spring it at the most appropriate momment.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:23 | 6919940 Chuckster
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Mr. Squadron:

That is the best idea I've heard in at least 40 years!

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:27 | 6920180 Demdere
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Or a promise of a real, independent investigation of 9/11.

You won't ever hear either from Trump.  Trump may be many things, including something of an outsider, but the man owes his existance and wealth to being a member of that Status Quo.  He needs loans in his business, he has to have many business contacts, in addition to his Mafia friends.

He is connected in Las Vegas and all of show business.  That is a lot of connections to Israeli connections. It isn't an accident his daughter to Judiaism

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:01 | 6919839 rwe2late
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 The Vietnam War was

"unwinnable" by the US

because the US was never going to win the "hearts and minds"

of the Vietnamese by devastating the country and killing a million of them.

The war was "unwinnable" because it was so senseless and evil

that even most of the US citizens realized it.

 

Denniger's attempt to rewrite history by claiming it was body-count "winnable"

if only the US had persisted in murdering a few millions more peasants,

and only "lost" because of a news broadcast

is a sad indication of stubborn moral depravity and hubris.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:03 | 6919854 GhostOfDiogenes
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Bullshit!

North Vietnam was finished. Their armies were smashed to nothing. We had special forces guys on the ground outside of emperor ho chi's palace ready to liquidate him and they were called off.

The vietnam war wasn't meant to be won.

No wars are. They are just about the $ for the MIC.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:21 | 6919927 yogibear
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"They are just about the $ for the MIC"

It's one of the reasons why JFK was assasinated. 

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:22 | 6919934 Chuckster
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I got an idea for a new movie "Reality lost!"

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:36 | 6919994 matermaker
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Which would be funny if it were not for the fact you have all these folks incapable of critical thinking singing praises on high for a man who had a fucking reality television show on network television.    OHHHHH Yeah... he's different from the rest...

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:37 | 6920001 matermaker
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for mulitple fucking seasons!       lol

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 12:50 | 6921880 rwe2late
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GhostOfDiogenes

You need to ask yourself exactly "who" would have "won" what?

If the the US had continued the occupation/subjugation of the Vietnamese,

what exactly would the thousands more US casualties have "won".?

What would the US economy have won (except for the war industry?).

What percentage of Vietnamese would the US have to kill and maim,

and how much of Vietnam defoliate and ruin to achieve what?

How long would the colonial-take-over-from-France occupation have had to continue?

What does the US society"win" by committing atrocities across the globe?

You need to ask yourself why you are willing to commit genocide, ethnic cleansing, torture, and murder, and for whom?

This isn't a football game, or is "victory" to be determined by body-count points.

 

 

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 14:41 | 6926746 . . . _ _ _ . . .
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And they had to destroy Laos (the most heavily bombed country in the world - unexploded bombs are still killing people) to do it.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:17 | 6919909 tarabel
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Any war that allows the enemy safe havens from which to maneuver and operate is going to fail.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:21 | 6919928 Chuckster
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That is 100% correct.  The side that can mobilize and respond the fastest will win.  simple.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:31 | 6919969 MSimon
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And that is almost all wars. For various reasons there are limits. Turkey is not going all out - they are using a proxy - because they have to think about Russia.

 

 

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:31 | 6919970 SquadronVBF94
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Exactly! LBJ's managing every move especially in the air campaign guranteed the loss

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:29 | 6920190 Demdere
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Where are the safe havens in Afghanistan?  Iraq?

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 14:43 | 6926753 . . . _ _ _ . . .
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"More than 500 jihadists cared for at the Ziv Medical Centre"

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:19 | 6919923 Chuckster
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The Vietnamese didn't want to be catholic.  Talk about murdering people over religion.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:04 | 6920104 rejected
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Being there,,, The Tet completely eviscerated the Viet Cong as a fighting force. The NVA not nearly so much. Later when the NVA took over they didn't have to worry about the VC complicating things. I think that was the North's reason for throwing them to the wolves. US Command didn't think there would be any serious attacks and so did not prepare and was why so many US troops died. Some pretty serious fighting for awhile though.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:02 | 6919848 fukidontknow
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I thik you're seeing stuff in Trump that just isn't there.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:18 | 6919914 Chuckster
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Like?  The man tells you everything he thinks.  Hillary and the rest simply lie to you.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:32 | 6920199 Demdere
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For some value of 'think'.

No doubt intelligent. No doubt knows a lot about things he knows about. No indication at all that he knows things outside of that or has a grasp of what to do.  All 'policies' so far are oneliners.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 11:05 | 6921331 FrankDrakman
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You think that Trump tells us "everything he thinks"?!

Man, I would LOVE to play poker with you, but I'd settle for watching you play Trump. 

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:02 | 6919850 logicalman
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If anyone is watching closely, I think what Trump is doing is showing everyone that the whole thing is a pile of shit.

If you don't see that voting for a president is an exercise in madness, by now, you should find a tall building, climb to the top and see if  you can fly.

Not one of the candidates for US pres shows any sign of making sense.

Don't vote, it only encourages the buggers.

 

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:12 | 6919891 matermaker
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On this I would agree.  There was a movie on cable on, when I was a kid.  It was called "Brewster's Millions"   by the end of the of the movie, Richard Pryor is trying to blow all of his money on a political campaign for New Yorkers to vote for "none of the above".

Until people start saying, "NO, I will not choose between a bowl of warm shit and a steaming hot bowl of shit...I want neither.." this will continue.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:45 | 6920027 matermaker
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Here is the reality check.   I care not what you think of Trump.  He doesn't have the infrastructure nor the ties.  It took people like Hitler years to get in place folks like Earnst Rham of the Brownshirts and Military folks in his camp.   You can't just show up from New York real estate, casinos and Miss America and expect to have the REAL connections of what get folks dissappeared.

Jeb Bush might be a moron, but his father held a key role in getting Kennedy offed, for pete's sake.  That's why they're already talking about a brokered convention.

As for the military?  Trump doesn't strike me as the type to have many connections there.  I doubt he's very connected in the Lockheed or Boeing circles, either.   His enitre professional career has been a showman. 

Even Teddy Roosevelt had a politically connected family to become the populists president.   Trump is just trying to ring lead the circus.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:50 | 6920045 matermaker
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He's so pompous that he'd get hamstringed within six months.  He's not diplomatic.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:46 | 6920028 lordbyroniv
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but what'll really get your noodle is when you realize all this -- even Trump -- is all part of the script.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:36 | 6920209 Demdere
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And even if there was no evidence of that, we should assume it.  MSM's ability to block any discussion of 9/11 FF tells you how free our press is.  People who pulled off 9/11 FF and kept it a non-event in the political world probably can manage to deal with the public's initial annoyance with the results of their rolling coup, of which 9/11 FF was merely the 3rd in the series of false flags, which continue.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:47 | 6920243 dark_matter
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I don't think Rand Paul is part of the agenda which is why he is marginalized. He talks about the madness of the war on terror, the death of civil liberties and deficit spending and they act like he is crazy.

Even so, I agree voting is a waste of time.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:03 | 6919855 atomicwasted
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Trumpians, being right wing populists at best and Nazis at worst, are simply unable to conceive of or accept the fact that many people don't like Trump simply because he is a fascist. They have to invent some excuse as to why people dislike their savior.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:07 | 6919872 Chris Dakota
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I hope Trump is the Führer and the sooner he makes you into a lampshade the better.

 

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:16 | 6919904 Chuckster
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Your not from any Dakota I know.  Wisconsin maybe(Ed Geens).

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:49 | 6920248 Ms No
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Ummmm... have you spent much time in western ND?

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:18 | 6919919 SquadronVBF94
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That you posit that the Nazis are product of the political right shows how profoundly ignoant you are.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:24 | 6920171 rejected
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All the Western "free" democracy's are by definition, Fascist. If he is a fascist he should fit right in, I know the rest will.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:03 | 6919857 lakecity55
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Fuck 'em all. We don't need them. That's what they are afraid we're finding out!

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:15 | 6919899 Chuckster
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They are dead wood.....free living off the working man's back.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:38 | 6920213 Demdere
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There was an argument for some small leadership, e.g. the Articles of Confederation.

But now we have an internet, and we people can solve these problems if we can get the evil bastards off of our backs and out of our lives.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:06 | 6919861 SillySalesmanQu...
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I want you to go to your front doors right now, go to your front door, open it up, go out to your porches and sidewalks and star screaming at your neighbors...WAKE UP AMERICA, I AM AWAKE AND I WANT YOU TO WAKE UP TOO.....

S/

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:14 | 6919898 Chuckster
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So....you want everyone to get arrested?

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:05 | 6919862 thx111
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Start a perpetual war in Middle East.   Create millions of muslim refugees.  Send them to Europe and US.  Stage a few hoax terrorist attacks.  Demonize muslim immigrant.  A guy like Trump shows up as a presidential candidate.  Ancestors of migrant white europeans who massacred native Americans go crazy about him. 

I wonder who wrote the story?

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:11 | 6919886 thisguyoverhere
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Which white European ancestors??

The ones whose further ancestors were sacked by the Roman Empire?

What drivel, how does any of Trump's ancestors factor into your current life or his campaign?

Answer me debt slave?

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:35 | 6919989 thx111
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I don't know what Roman Empire thing you are talking about.

It's stupid that an ancestor of the white immigrant talks about temporary closer of boarder for Musulim immigrant.   I can't express well, but it sounds hippocratic.  Maybe you didn't learn the history of the US, so you can't understand what I am talking about.

By the way, sorry if you are a debt slave?  Is that the reason why you support the mop head guy?

Because I'm not.  Everything including my house has been paid off.

 

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 11:26 | 6921478 FrankDrakman
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"I can't express well, but it sounds hippocratic. "

You express weller than you know. The "Hippocratic Oath" says, among other things, "First, do no harm". Temporarily barring Muslims from entering the country is triage, of course. And as with all triage, some people will endure a longer time in lesser pain while the bigger and more painful issues get sorted. 

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:13 | 6919893 Chuckster
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This will make you crazy...the Native Americans want the Muslims to come here too.  I know a whole lot of them and that is what they are saying.  I try to tell them the Europeans took their land and now they want to give their land to the Muslims.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:22 | 6919933 Chris Dakota
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They didn't own this land, they came here from Asia.

Whites were here first they came during the ice age.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:22 | 6920163 jomama
Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:49 | 6920249 Chris Dakota
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Nobody knows who was here first. Civilizations come and go, we will be gone too one day.

But one thing is for sure, people trying to seperate white Americans from this land and it

just ain't gonna happen Jomama.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:06 | 6919865 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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D. Jerkoff Trump is a raving lunatic fascist Hitlerite megalomaniac tyrant sociopath authoritarian wackjob nutbar psychoRetard warmonger.

 

Up yours, D. Jerkoff Trump.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:09 | 6919881 Chuckster
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So you like him?

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:18 | 6919915 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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If I could get US television I would probably appreciate viewing Trumps antics on TV much more than I presently do on Canadian TV. Frankly, I only get Canadian TV stations which report highlights of Trumps antics only. Since my parents died I have not been able to view American televison programming whatsoever. Frankly, I miss ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, et cetera.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 01:19 | 6920454 dogismycopilot
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Here, let me help you.

Canadian choir sings ancient Islamic song to welcome refugees

Video of youngsters singing Tala’a Al Badru Alayna surfaces on YouTube

http://gulfnews.com/news/americas/canada/canadian-choir-sings-ancient-is...

 

See this motherfucker. This is called INDOCTRINATION.

Wake up man, you're in OJ land.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:13 | 6919897 tarabel
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So you're saying that he's a vast improvement over everyone else?

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:24 | 6919944 dexter_morgan
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The appeal to emotion and fear, lack of logic or reason, descent in to immediate name calling,  tells me this is an unthinking, propagandized ignoramus libtard and can be safely ignored, except for his/her entertainment value. 

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:43 | 6920230 Demdere
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Will you stop using 'libtard' for Trump. It implies some association with 'liberty', and I see none. Trump is certainly no Libertarian, not even small L in any way.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:07 | 6919871 thisguyoverhere
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Trump can't save America, but he may awaken the independent self sufficient spirit of the upcoming generation, thereby "saving America".

Is this possible?

Who would be in his cabinet?

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Some articles have Trump as a cartoonish character, brought forward for entertainment. I would argue the opposite, that in fact since JFK, each president has been a placeholding mickey mouse while the real power works behind the scenes. Trump's campaign stands in stark contrast with a touch of populism and heretofore brashness that has not been seen since when?

Too early to tell how this Trump campaign ends.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:25 | 6919947 . . . _ _ _ . . .
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I would agree but that would all change on his first day in office when he is briefed. The secret service 'protect' the president and his family for the rest of their lives, but they also keep an eye on him and keep his actions in check. Diabolical.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:29 | 6919966 Ms No
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"..since JFK, each president has been a placeholding mickey mouse while the real power works behind the scenes.."

I always wonder if they find that out before or after they get into office because some of these guys don't seem that bright.  It would be quite the downer to think that you have just become leader of the "free" world to be thrown in a leather chair by your own secret service and a fat Zionist smoking a cigar followed by a lecture that starts out with.. "Listen here bitch".

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:10 | 6920118 YHC-FTSE
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+1 Nice post. Could be that much of a shocker I suppose. It's much more "their" style to surround the president with advisors and civil servants who guide and prod the president with reasonable policies then ignores anything said off-plan. Anyone familiar with Soloman Asch's conformity experiments will know how powerful it is to make a person go with the flow of the majority. Then you have all the uniformed people giving advice too - another powerful Milgram (Obedience to authority meme) psychological persuader.

If ONE group virtually has the monopoly on ALL the think tanks, ALL the lobbyists, ALL the civil service, and ALL the agencies, then it should be possible to groom, fund, elect and control a candidate without even the candidate knowing. Scary huh? But I have a special interest in psychology and behavioural science and it fascinates me.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:38 | 6920211 dark_matter
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They winnow the field until only corrupt, blackmailable candidates are left. That way "the briefing" always has the desired effect. Hillary leads the field because she doesn't need the talk, she's been there, done that.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 11:31 | 6921519 FrankDrakman
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Seriously doubt it's that overt. Try watching the BBC comedy "Yes, Minister" for a few episodes. You'll see how the entrenched bureaucrats run the show. 

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:07 | 6919874 YHC-FTSE
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Blaming poor old Walther Cronkite on losing the whole Vietnam war is a bit......revisionist, shall we say? Batshit crazy. The rest of the muddled essay really has no place in the adult world, mostly excusing criminal behaviour as simply "not caring", but I get the gist that he likes the Trump. Fair enough.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:41 | 6920014 NoWayJose
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Agreed. The failure might be that after destroying most of the North Vietnamese army, the politicians didn't let our army finish the job right then and there.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:29 | 6920187 dark_matter
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What does finsh the job mean? Why were we there in the first place? Wars are fought for access to resources and markets. Vietnam was about making money. The people making the money got and continue to get what they want. They don't care about "finishing the job" unless it leads to more money.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:46 | 6920029 ZIRPY
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Is it more likely that Bush, Clinton, Carson, Rubio and the rest are in cahoots with each other in one gigantic scheme, or does an Occam's Razor interpretation, that these different people are simply motivated by their own desire for power, seem more appropriate?

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:48 | 6920246 Demdere
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Why should I choose? We have sports as an example : serious contention within a scheme all are in cahoots with.

Normal political process, it seems to me.  Ds and Rs are feathering their nests and fully cooperating at extracting wealth from their fief. Doesn't mean they can't fight over the spoils and who gets to occupy which chair next.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:07 | 6919875 texas_lurker
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I only believe half of the text above.  But because that implies I believe about half, it makes me wonder how naive I must be about the other half.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:08 | 6919878 Yen Cross
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 My uncle Bud, came back from Vietnam telling us kids that "ashtrays" had these monsters called George in them, just to pacify, and have fun with with his firends and children.

 My uncle Bud built an empire, because he wanted to protect people from the atrocities he "personally" witnessed.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:11 | 6919882 joego1
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I think the real fear is that legions of crony do nothing bureaucrats will here nothing but Trump screaming "Your Fired" for his first term. Boy would that be music to my ears.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:51 | 6920256 Demdere
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To make that happen, he would have to own congress and ignore political criticism.

He will not own congress, he will not ignore political criticism, the man has the skin thickness of 1-ply toilet tissue, no criticism avoids a storm of abuse coming back at it.

 

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:13 | 6919887 Cabreado
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Trump may serve to embolden the masses to address a corrupt and defunct Congress...

That would be his greatest feat as President.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:38 | 6919913 Dark Daze
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I don't disagree with the overall premise of this piece, as I've been saying much the same thing myself for many, many years, however, let's take the Vietnam part out of it shall we. At the height of the 'surge' in Vietnam during the Johnson era (another politician who didn't "care" by the way), the US had 680,000 troops there and was spending more than 1 Billion a day trying to support a 15,000 mile supply line. Before the war was over 58,200 US troops had lost their lives. Tens of thousands more were badly wounded with either mental or physical damage that remained for the rest of their lives. The endeavor split America badly. There were killings of protesters in Ohio, brutal police suppression in Chicago. By 1968 the number of battle field deaths was so high they had a 12 month backlog on aluminum caskets. This is not the picture of a war America was 'winning' and it isn't the first foreign entanglement that the US failed at. They failed in Korea, Cambodia, Laos, Somalia, Libya, and failed spectacularly in Iraq, unless you feel that completely destroying countries and throwing their entire population to the wolves is somehow 'success'. There can be no social justice for the citizens of the US unless and until the entire political establishment is thrown out. That much is correct. But Americans, the general population also needs to learn and understand that there are limits to power, even for a nuclear armed country. The real 'truth' about Vietnam is the same 'truth' that is in play in the middle east today. Oil and gas, and Johnson was doing his bit for his fellow Texans. Just take a look at the maps of the offshore oil and gas deposits around southeast Asia. Certainly, after the fall of Vietnam there were undoubtedly many brutal executions of collaborators and internment in 're-eduction camps', but to suggest that the Vietnamese are worse than what the Americans have visited on virtually every continent in the world, is childish and very misleading.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:18 | 6920151 rejected
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Good summary.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 05:46 | 6920713 The Wedge
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As we pulled out of Vietnam, the war was very unpopular and congress passed laws forbidding financial support to the south. The north waited and rebuilt for 3 years. They made provocative actions to test the US. When they realized the US would do nothing they attacked the the remaining south Vietnamese troops slaughtering a few hundred thousand people. The author is absolutely right that we did actually beat the communists and could have prevented the fall of the south.

Indifference

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:21 | 6919929 lester1
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CNN is disgustingly dishonest. All day they have been saying Trump is losing in Iowa. But they don't even cite their own poll from 3 days ago showing Trump winning by 13 points in Iowa.

 

I think Trump is running away with the primary, and for ratings purposes the media is lying and saying its a lot closer race.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:37 | 6919999 NoWayJose
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I'm OK with Cruz - but just think back and the pollsters had Fiorina neck and neck with Trump, then Carson, now Cruz. Iowa might be a challenge because the evangelicals are as passionate as Trump supporters - but Trump will get a share of them too.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 05:38 | 6920709 The Wedge
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Iowa is not that important in the Republican primary. It just tells you who is popular with the evangelists and these days that doesn't mean much.

And don't forget these polls are meant to sway public opinion not reflect it.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:27 | 6919948 OhNo
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 Lizards are evil. Start from the beginning! But hey maybe everyone loves this duality bullshit, I for one am over it.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:28 | 6919959 Vlad the Inhaler
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Pretty good assessment of the problem, but give me one concrete example of how any of this would change under Trump?  It won't.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:53 | 6920051 Buster Cherry
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Well, I like the wild ass shit he says that shakes things up.

I like that he wants a mortorium on musloids coming here, and it has precedent.

I heard him say all illegals must go. I'm all for that, and that too has precedent, as in Operation Wetback under Eisenhower.

He hasn't turned pussy and backed down from what he says.

I have over a year to change my mind though, as do you.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:03 | 6920105 Vlad the Inhaler
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Illegals and muslims, fine send them away, that won't fix any of what this guy is talking about.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:55 | 6920263 Demdere
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And neither one will take down the nation if unattended.

But the Israeli-Neocons who ddi the 9/11 FF operation, they are destroying everything in their pursuit of power.  They need chaos to survive.

 

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 08:55 | 6920892 Chris Dakota
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The thing is nothing of what he says is wild, it's the truth.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:56 | 6920267 Demdere
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Gates of Vienna is a propaganda site which does its best to limit your understanding, not expand it.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:32 | 6924450 dexter_morgan
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Its apparently worked for you. 

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:29 | 6919962 deerhunter
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Is social justice bringing strange people with unknown intent to our shores? We need term limits. 2 terms. That goes for sheriff, coroner, school board , city council, state rep , congressman, US congress critters.
We need to starve the beast. Go to HR department on the first week of new year and claim 12 exemptions. Put aside your federal income tax burden and pay it at end of year. It is all they understand.
Ah hell ; forget it . We are screwed.,
S

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 03:38 | 6920625 SquadronVBF94
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Sounds like a good idea but it will get you charged with tax fraud in a freaking heartbeat.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:40 | 6919987 Duc888
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Ok, so I read it.  Big deal, they don't care.  No shit Karl.  Sheesh.  Talk about stating the obvious.  There is no more "LAW" for those at the top.  They get a pass.  So big fucking deal.  We already know that.

 

There is no more recourse "in" the system.  It's rigged.  It's beyond obvious. 

Obama shits all over the Coinstitution for 7 years and gets a pass.

Clinton is 100% complicit in murder and gets a pass...

Holder and his office was complicit in murder and he got a pass and a nice retirement fund..

Same as it always was...

Shrub got a pass, as did Cheney...as did Colin Powell, as did Rice... as did Rumsfeld...

Do we even need to get into the monetary end of things?

TheBernanke?

Geithner?

Paulson?

Christ, the list goes on, they circle in, take their skim, leave town with their stolen wealth...

So what was the point of this article again?

Oh, "they don't care"  No shit.  Water is wet.

 

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:45 | 6920024 Buster Cherry
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Yep, this article did.not add.any value to my world-situation education.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:47 | 6920009 Moccasin
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Scapegoating a dead guy, Walter Cronkite, this shows bad taste. Re-writing history shows a lack of integrity and honesty. "We" lost Vietnam because the people of Vietnam were determined to win and killing a few million more was not going to change the facts on the ground. The Donito fans are delusional and have become unhinged having bought the fear mongering they are now looking for a savior. They will be deeply disappointed.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:44 | 6920021 NoWayJose
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Trump will have a challenge getting the RINOs to change in Congress, but we can thank Obama for establishing new ways to bypass Congress. Trump will also put department heads in that will be tearing apart the political crony structure.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:58 | 6920276 Demdere
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GOod idea.  Then we can pass an Enabling Act, that will help a lot.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 05:04 | 6920687 Bazza McKenzie
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Much of what he wants to do is already law (shipping back illegal aliens and excluding people, such as muslims, that the president deems a threat) or within the president's powers (scrapping most of EPA, appointing good people to cabinet posts).

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:46 | 6920030 WillyGroper
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Holy shit...what a perspective.

Still believes & forgets any construction deals go thru the mafia/gub, of which he's dipped his wick.

Symbiotic.

He forgot Satanism.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:53 | 6920057 DOGGONE
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Karl D.,
Stocks and homes are assets priced in U.S. dollars. Therefore, their
soundly shown price histories are inflation-adjusted ("real").

But such are seldom seen, because: Well apparent therein are our
nation's serial, massive mispricings. I do this
http://showrealhist.com/yTRIAL.html
in order to combat deception by omission done to our citizenry.

"The public be suckered" is both this track record and keeping it unseen.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:54 | 6920058 enloe creek
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People don't care either.  Small minds are just looking to see others misfortune so they feel superior.  They would rather vote for the guy who promises to punish someone else before voting for the guy that wants to make it better for everyone  the politics of payback I guess. Anyway Americans are getting what they have coming maybe. I am doing what I can for my family but it looks hopeless.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:57 | 6920078 Niall Of The Ni...
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Oh, these people are plenty evil. Part of the reason is they don't have a sense of right and wrong going beyond what happens to be convenient for them.

So they encourage breeds of humanity with IQs too low to successfully organize slave revolts to breed like rats, while doing everything in their power to drive the breeds that made industrial civilzation possible at all into extinction, because the smart humans--the Nobel prize winners, if you want---are the ones that pose a clear and present threat to their rule, best equipped to compete for the top jobs in any society where skill and intelligence are valued, and develop the innovations that will make the investments of old, moneyed families worthless.

The Jews have always been a threat to the masters---they wouldn't have bankrolled pogroms and gas chambers for just anybody. The Jews only escaped extinction by divine providence, in the form of the Red Army.

And now that our masters have bred enough low-IQ humans to replace the West's industrial proletariat several times over, the ancestral peoples of Europe who built everything in north America worth preserving are now a far bigger threat than they're worth as beasts of burden. Any way you look at it, we're next.

If genocide isn't evil, I'm sure I don't know what is.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:14 | 6920137 thisguyoverhere
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"These people are evil"

Lets define our terms before assuming our readers understand please.

"Jews only escaped extinction . . .Red Army"

Lets avoid blanket statements.

"Nobel Prize winners"

tisk tisk there is one in office currently in the USA

Seriously ZH commenters let us all work more on our rhetorical skills.

That is all

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 05:29 | 6920703 The Wedge
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"Seriously ZH commenters let us all work more on our rhetorical skills".

There are a few posters here with decent rhetorical prose. It's a mixed bag.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 11:43 | 6921596 FrankDrakman
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The "Peace Prize" is NOT a Nobel prize. It's named 'in honour of Nobel', as it's not one of his creations. 

I'm sure the OP was referring to the actual Nobel prizes, which honour great accomplishments in the fields of medicine, math, physics, chemistry, literature and (recently) economics. The "Peace Prize" is given out by the Norwegians, not the Swedes, and is voted on by Norwegians, the same honourable people who collaborated with the Nazis in WWII. The correlation between the "Peace Prize" and the real Nobel prizes is the same as the one between "purple" and "music". 

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:24 | 6920169 pipes
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Plenty evil indeed.

 

Their indifference is part of the evidence of this evil. Karl is further wrong in his assessment, in that he doesn't recognize that Trump seems to be displaying a kind of indifference too...indifference to the establishment's norms.

 

Trump won't "fix" anything. He won't be allowed to.

 

The REAL danger here (as far as the establishment should be concerned), is that Trump makes "solid" what has thusfar been intangible...that he puts "bullet points" to the masses frustrations...that the "plebes" will no longer be able to lie to themselves that there is "hope", because when THAT happens, the control mechanism will break down.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:58 | 6920081 Chuckster
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Donald Trump could better use his time and effort in his companies.  Think of the hardship of being president.  I wouldn't want it period.  Donald must want it because he thinks he can do the country and therefore the citizens some good.  Maybe he can....I don't know and I don't think anybody else knows either.  Give the man a chance.  Do you want Hillary...known liar and thief.  Feel the burn with Berny?  Shit!  When I watch the republican debates I think about Donald as president and the other candidates as cabinet members and all of a sudden it looks absolutely fantastic compared to what I have seen the last 16 years.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 00:06 | 6920298 Demdere
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We are a year from the election and you are trying to make me choose between 2 candidates from 2 parties.

How about Ventura/Paul? Listen to Ventura, that man understands and has gov experience.  Hie is far past Trump in capability in every way, and the Libs are on the ballot 50 states.

All it takes is turnout and a bunch of campaign workers.  Authentic candidates win, the most authentic are Trump and Paul and ?surgeon? and Bernie.  Bernie is obviously not qualified, he can't think. Surgeon has no experience, amont other negatives that will end him.

 

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 00:39 | 6920378 Clowns on Acid
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You are a simpleton. A non thinker. A piece of wasted western civilization.  Grow a spine if you can.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 05:24 | 6920699 The Wedge
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"Think of the hardship of being president".

I had to stop there. The United States President, especially in modern times, is the ultimate narcissists dream. The kind of narcissism that is difficult for the average schmo to imagine.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 11:50 | 6921620 FrankDrakman
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If you don't think being Prez is a hardship, look at GWB on Inauguration Day, and 8 years later. Same with Bambam. They don't look like they aged ten years on the job; they look like they aged 30. I hold no brief for Bambam, ever, but he started out as a reasonably good-looking young (40ish) man. Today, he looks like Uncle Ben. 

Let's not kid ourselves - the job is 24/7, full of ceremonial BS that you can't duck out of, nonstop fundraising for your next campaign or your succcessors, and - oh yeah - running the country. Plus golf. 

I might, in a moment's fantasy, dream of having the job. But when I wake up, I realize how much shit comes with it, and I think "Not me!". 

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:08 | 6920117 rejected
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Well Karl, The real problem is most Americans are indifferent to the politicians indifference.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:17 | 6920149 o r c k
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I don't care.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:16 | 6920144 jomama
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Really Karl?

 

Then how do you explain what happened to Perot? He had the same financial leverage, and was actually much more professional and pragmatic, with arguably a much more vaible, comprehensive plan for America.

 

Paternalism, racism, and xenophobia resound loudly with the vast majority of Americans.

That is what is driving the animus toward Trump.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 00:47 | 6920388 Sanity Bear
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Without restorting to progressive propaganda, can you tell us what exactly is wrong with being racist?

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 00:59 | 6920406 Chris Dakota
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Trump hasn't done or said anything racist.

He is xenophobic for not wanting the country flooded with criminals.

Its the same old race card they have been playing for decades and it's just a ploy.

For them being white is racist.

He is a Tall White and that drives them up a wall.

haha

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 02:06 | 6920535 Sanity Bear
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Forget Trump for the moment - I think that racism against blacks in particular is wholly justified in and of itself.

 

They are stupid and violent. Their average IQ is too low to function in a technological society. Their violence is legendary, whether in Africa or after many generations living among white people. The most intelligent black man I ever heard of is Malcolm X, who himself saw and consistently espoused the virtues of racism - he recognized that blacks are significantly different and require a different type of society to maximize their well-being.

 

If you steer clear of black people and don't live among them, your chances of being a victim of a whole host of crimes plummets like a stone.

 

I've known quite a few really cool and interesting black people in my time, but they are one in thousands, exceptions and outliers.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 03:38 | 6920624 Demdere
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I personally know a black engineer who writes programs for supercomputers, and is very good at it.

Anyone using the gd IQ argument doesn't know much about IQ, genetics or testing.  Bogus arguments, because nobody from outside a culture ever has average IQs on tests from within the culture.  You wouldn't do well on a Japanexe IQ test even if it was translated into English.

"Quite a few" out of how many?  What groups?  Statistical sampling is not something you do by just walking around talking to people, and humans are hopeless at statistical analysis using memory.

I have known Ph.D.s and M.D.s who spoke haltingly.  Good people, the last MD is at one of the best hospitals in the US.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 05:00 | 6920682 Bazza McKenzie
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Plenty of stats on the disproportionate violence from black in the US compared to whites.

No doubt you imagine the levels of violence in Chicago and Baltimore are entirely coincidental with the proportion of blacks in those cities.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 05:16 | 6920694 The Wedge
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I have been told that racists exist and now I have found one. A real self described racist that believes the black American race as a whole is inferior to the white American race. And I do not mean this as a cheap insult. However, I do not share your unenlightened views.

But if you think Malcolm X was the most intelligent black man you need to up your sample size. And the belief that the two races are different is not racist (according to the definition) nor is being a segregationist, as he was, racist. A bad idea for sure but not racist. Watch this round table discussion with X and other civil rights leaders on the Open Mind from 1963. What black America needed was to not have their culture erased and then download a new more destructive one onto them. Thug culture etc. etc. We know this is true because the imprint missed it's target on occasion and imprinted on whites and other ethnic groups but was specifically targeted to blacks.

In the video above, James Farmer and Wyatt Tee along with Malcolm discuss the plight of the black man. Farmer and Wyatt call for socialism and claim that is the only way to make the two races equal. Malcolm was of course a segregationist and rejected that notion out of hand. Sadly, Farmer and others didn't realize that the oppressors would use socialism to destroy the black culture. And we can see now that it worked. X opposed this for good reasons but having two side by side separate countries as he wanted was never going to happen. The federal government had amassed to much power and land to just give it up and probably saw this as a direct threat. See the civil war etc.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 20:05 | 6923697 Sanity Bear
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Almost everyone is racist. Very few are willing to admit it, either because they feel better about themselves to pretend they are not, or because they don't want to deal with SJW bullshit.

 

Few people are honest and up-front about it like I am, but behind closed doors it's a completely different story. I'm comfortable around white people and orientals, full stop - and this isn't a very uncommon point of view at all.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 04:17 | 6920649 thisguyoverhere
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Before I begin, I'd like to start with some light humor with some intelligent debate over the terms we use. Before we talk about "white" lets define "white".

White - a human being with light skin

White - Balt - a specific genetic makeup of a people group currently with a majority comprising populations in Lithuania and Latvia?

Wait so you just want to throw the term out there because we all know what you mean right? Really, I beg to differ.

Seriously where is Whiteland? Anybody know of a nation state of peoples called Whiteland where they can trace their descendants?

Now for all of you less traveled I would argue that you will find very few people of Greek ancestry who will say that they are the same type of people as the Irish.

Even more I'd say that many Irish would have a serious problem if you said they were the same as the British.

And I dare you to tell a Russian scientist that he is of the same makeup, no better or worse than a shiftless
Apalachian meth head.

Tell a light skinned New Yorker from any borough that he is the same as the guys from Duck Dynasty and see if he doesn't wipe the floor with you.

And I dare you to tell a new migrant from Ghana or Nigeria that they are the same "blacks" as someone from the #3rd or 5th Ward in Houston, Texas. Just the same that person from Houston, Texas would have their own concept of their identity as seperate from the migrant.

What these terms on your tax form, black, white, hispanic, pacific islander, native american are about in America is a divide and conquer strategy that is as old as history.

I'm sorry people of light skin makeup less than 7% of the world population. It is not a homogenous group, in fact, it comprises a mixture of ethnic, religious and in fact tribal genetic markers that are quite unique.

Each of us, no matter what our intellect, background, race or religion must come to face the fact we have been conned.

Fighting about meaningless (relative to larger issues) notions of skin color rather than the larger issues of civilization.

Samuel Clemmons (Mark Twain) once remarked (paraphrasing) "its easier to to be fooled than admit you were fooled"

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 05:11 | 6920691 man of Wool
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Go and ask a black man!

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 00:50 | 6920392 Chris Dakota
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What is driving people to Trump is Obama and the Democrats who use the IRS to attack whites.

Gov jobs go only to minorities, hate crime for one white guy who did knockout on a black but all

blacks didn't get charged with that.

Trayvon my son.

Black Lives Matter.

Black Panthers voter intimidation.

Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch.

Lesbo Supreme Court nomination.

Wise Latina.

Mass immigration mostly illegal.

Nancy Pelosi insider trading.

Obama destroying Libya and not a word from the so called antiwar left.

Cindy Sheehan kicked to the curb once Obama was elected.

Obamacare shoved down our throats.

Screeching bitches in Ivy League, lying about KKK on campus, fake attacks.

Funding and arming ISIS, letting them run wild all over the middle east.

Homo attacks on bakers, chicken restaurants, fake attacks on themselves.

President with photoshopped birth certificate, sealed records.

Warmongering with left cover.

Treating blacks as sacred cows.

Hiding illegals and paying to house them.

Calling us racists from day one.

The police acted stupidly

The fucker himself is a racist and hetrophobe

thats it Jomama!

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 04:22 | 6920656 The Wedge
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"Paternalism, racism, and xenophobia resound loudly with the vast majority of Americans".

Empty headed nonsense. And those that parade this as some kinda meaningful, holier than thou slight should be smacked in the face with the penises of real men repeatedly for 2 weeks straight.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:27 | 6920176 Disc Jockey
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All voting is bulllshit. This election is fucking pointless. Why ZH and it's readers even give a damn is beyond me. 

 

News-flash! it's a big fucking club and you're not in it!

 

Trump does not give a flying fuck about any of you. Men in power simply use the populous to get more power. How can this not be clear?

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 00:07 | 6920301 Demdere
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So we don't wait for invitations to the club.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 00:08 | 6920304 Disc Jockey
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Also to the puke that downvoted me I wish you no ill will. In fact you have my sympathy to believe that elections are not rigged completely by the men that own you. Someday you'll figure it out slave.

One day when the bankers and their ilk hang from the lamp-posts I'll buy you a drink and we'll have a good laugh.

Till then have fun putting your little piece of paper in the chattel suggestion box.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 01:00 | 6920409 Chris Dakota
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the latest left strategy is "don't vote, its all rigged"

lol

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 02:48 | 6920547 Disc Jockey
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Fuck you duck. You know nothing.

I've spent great deal of my time and fortune in the past campaigning for honest people like Ron Paul. I was even a delegate for him back in 2012 to try and work from within. The shit I saw going down during the conventions I will never forget. Anyone who has been paying attention to the elections of the past 30 years and still thinks they have a say is a fool. Yes the game is rigged.

Oh, and if you allude to me being a leftist (as if being a rightist is any better) I'd be happy to meet with you at the local fight club to resolve our disagreement as gentlemen.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 08:54 | 6920891 Chris Dakota
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I'm not a gentleman I am a woman, but yeah lets fight Jockey.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 10:26 | 6921168 falak pema
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kama sutra says there are basically 32 fight positions.. your move.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:29 | 6920188 Sir John Bagot Glubb
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The article ignores the depths of The HildeBeast's treachery, criminality and treason.  And while everyone idiotically throws tantrums about Trump while she licks her chops on the sidelines, here's one pundit's explaination of her deletion of 30,000 emails from her private server:


Recently, Charles  Krauthammer alluded that he had no doubt some of the 30k emails Hillary deleted from her private email server very likely had references to the Clinton Foundation, which would be illegal and a conflict of interest.  

The Clinton Foundation is "organized crime" at its finest, and we are financing it. 

Here is a good, concise summary of how the Clinton Foundation works as a tax free international money laundering scheme.  It may eventually prove to be the largest political criminal enterprise in U.S. history. 

This is a textbook case on how you hide foreign money sent to you and repackage it to be used for your own purposes.  All tax free.  Here's how it works:

1. You create a separate foreign "charity."  In this case one in Canada.


2.  Foreign oligarchs and governments, then donate to this Canadian charity.   In this case, over 1,000 did -- contributing mega millions.  I'm sure they did this out of the goodness of their hearts, and expected nothing in return. (Imagine Putin's buddies waking up one morning and just deciding to send untold millions to a Canadian charity).

3. The Canadian charity then bundles these separate donations and makes a massive donation to the    Clinton Foundation.

4. The Clinton Foundation and the cooperating Canadian charity claim Canadian law prohibits the identification of individual donors.


5. The Clinton Foundation then "spends" some of this money for legitimate good works programs. Unfortunately, experts believe this is on the order of 10%.  Much of the balance goes to enrich the  Clinton's, pay salaries   To  untold numbers of  hangers on, and fund lavish travel, etc.  Again, virtually all tax free,    which means you and I are subsidizing it.

6. The Clinton Foundation, with access to the world's best accountants, somehow fails to report much of this on their tax filings.  They discover these "clerical errors" and begin the process of re-filing 5 years of tax returns.

7. Net result -- foreign money, much of it from other countries, goes into the Clinton's pockets tax free and untraceable back to the original donor.  This is the textbook definition of money laundering.

Oh, by the way, the Canadian "charity" includes as a principal one Frank Giustra.  Google him.  He is the guy who was central to the formation of Uranium One, the Canadian company that somehow acquired massive U.S. uranium interests and then sold them to an organization controlled by Russia. This transaction required U.S. State Department approval, and guess who was Secretary of State when the approval was granted.  As an aside, imagine how former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell feels. That poor schlep is in jail because he and his wife took $165,000 in gifts and loans for doing minor favors for a guy promoting a vitamin company.  Not legal but not exactly putting U.S. security at risk. 

Sarcasm aside, if you're still not persuaded this was a cleverly structured way to get unidentified foreign money to the Clinton's, ask yourself this:

Why did these foreign interests funnel money through a Canadian charity? Why not donate directly to the Clinton Foundation?  Better yet, why not donate money directly to the people, organizations and countries in need?

This is the essence of money laundering and influence peddling.

Now you know why Hillary's destruction of 30,000 e-mails was a risk she was willing to take.

Bill and Hillary are devious, unprincipled, dishonest and criminal, and they are Slick!   Warning:  They could be back in the White House in January 2017.  Don't let it happen.  Remember, most people are not well informed.  You must inform and educate them.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:38 | 6920215 jomama
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GTFO with your cut and paste bullshit and upvoting yourself.

Fucking amateur.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 00:21 | 6920269 Sir John Bagot Glubb
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How can I take lessons to be a classy erudite guy like you?  Nice picture of yourself.  very handsome.  I didn't realize there was an approved way to blog.  Do you have an instructional website that takes credit cards?  If you don't like what someone blogs, I have a solution for you.  Don't read it.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 00:09 | 6920307 Bear
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Where did Sir John go wrong?

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 00:09 | 6920309 Demdere
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Just to let you know, I upvoted him and downvoted you.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 00:50 | 6920393 Sanity Bear
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If you ask me this site could use a lot more naming names.

 

And when we're naming names of people in the system who are doing great evil, you couldn't start with a better one than "Clinton". The way she hijacked the State Department and the national foreign policy for her own personal gain was absolutely breathtaking.

 

Even if he did cut and paste it we could sure hear some more exposure of her and her pedophile/rapist husband.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:54 | 6920255 Chris Dakota
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I haven't seen one Clinton bumper sticker, not a single one.

On the Democrat disrupters that scream in the Trump events I love how the supporters

fight them physically.

One guy was in a boxing stance with that big fat black lives matter dude.

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:44 | 6920232 lester1
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Other than Trump when was the last time you saw any Republican fill a stadium of 30,000 people for a speech?

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:45 | 6920236 uhland62
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Don't worry, like in France there's a bit of a storm in a tea cup and then it's back to duopoly rule. Only those get up who are system-conform and if Trump wants to carry on like he has, he won't get up. Computerised voting will take care of it. 

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 23:57 | 6920270 oldguy1
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Nobody 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-N7TRvStu0

1. Nobody will keep election promises

2. Nobody will listen to your concerns

3. Electing Nobody is the only way forward

4. Nobody will help the poor and unemployed

5. Nobody tells tthe truth

6. Nobody really gives a shit

7. Nobody is going to fix your problems

8. If Nobody is elected things wil be better for everyone

VOTE FOR NOBODY 2016

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 12:05 | 6921670 FrankDrakman
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Worked for Odysseus with Polyphemus. 

Everything old is new again. 

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 00:03 | 6920287 conraddobler
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After the tea party was swallowed whole along with the Occupy movement in a real world demonstration that all opposition will be co-opted at any turn everyone believes that Trump is somehow beyond their reach?

Yeah he has all the MONEY he needs but if he really represented a legit threat for one second then he would suddenly either just disappear citing some BS reason he wanted to pursue other interests or he'd have an "accident".

At the end of the day these people don't tolerate real opposition but Trump is pure gold for bottling up and then later diffusing angst.

Won't get fooled again.

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